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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Unless
World
Loose
Metaphor
Educated
Safe

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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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The only way round is through.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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